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You don't understand, I might need that hilarious Cracked listicle from fifteen years ago! (i.ibb.co)
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[–] Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Look again amigo, I am sad to say that a huge portion of those are dead links now which exist only in your memory. It's like getting internet blueballs when you click on something you were once excited about and now it redirects to some shitty hosting service page or a 404 page with a cutsie image and caption. If you want to really keep something, you have to save the page itself or make a pdf of it.

[–] Username@feddit.org 16 points 2 days ago

You can still find a lot of now dead pages on archive.org or archive.is

[–] Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

My YouTube "watch later" list is about the same.

[–] kubica@fedia.io 7 points 2 days ago

I stopped doing that, half of the times the videos stopped being available. Fuck that.

If I really want something I save it to disk as soon as possible.

[–] Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

I'd clear it out, but there's no function to do so.

Thanks Google, I really love seeing shit I labelled as "Watch Later" in my home feed from a decade ago.

[–] Uranium_Green@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My watch later is so big; it breaks whenever I add a new video. I have to manually go into the playlist, change it from recently added to a different listing order, then back to recently added for it to show anything I've added since the last time I've done this.

[–] Illegalmexicant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I always wondered why I would get some old stuff recommended. Turns out they come from my "watch later" list. Kinda glad I went through this process.

[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I have so many tabs open on Firefox mobile that it stopped counting and now has an infinity symbol, I think it's like 300 by now

however on desktop I have like 2 open. At most I'll have like 20 of the same video game wiki but will close them whenever

[–] gndagreborn@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

I just have mine set to close unopened tabs in a week. That way I don't feel bad about having to close them

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago

I like how Chrome just does :D once you have too many open.

[–] Whatevster@lemmy.today 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Ah man—I loved Cracked 15 years ago.

[–] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 days ago

Same here, I spent so much time on that site. It was my go-to when I needed to kill some time or procrastinate.

[–] smeg@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bookmarks? Nowadays we just leave 1697 tabs open!

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

I just have a search bar that takes me to the internet

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Bookmarks are nice just for autocomplete

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

History serves the same purpose for me.

[–] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True, but there are plenty of sites I visit less frequently than I clear my history.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Fair. I rarely clear my history, and my history and open tabs are synced across my devices.

[–] Stern@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The trick is starting a community and then posting them there for meaningless internet points

[–] neatobuilds@lemmy.today 4 points 2 days ago

Funny I have a bookmark on lemmy of a post that has tons of links to "interesting" websites

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

My bookmarks are filled with projects I saw online that I want to do but never will.

[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Been maintaining a steady set of bookmarks since whenever Foxmarks first came out. I dunno I search through them fairly frequently for stuff that I can't remember well enough to Google.